Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.